ehbowen

Yes, that’s what I have to do any time I want to update. I’m trying to fix the automatic updates so that they work properly. I suspect the file hierarchy because one time I found a file in the wp-content/upgrades folder saved with what looked to be a file hierarchy which was out of sync with the web user folder. But I’m not seeing that any more; it seems that the folder gets wiped each time an auto upgrade fails (every night). It’s probably an innocuous line in my wp-config file which is either wrong or missing. Trying to find out what it could be.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 9 months ago by ehbowen.

Well, I feel like a complete moron. After puzzling over the problem for more than a week, I tried comparing my installation to another WordPress install (on another server) which was working properly. And I found…my index.php file in the root WordPress directory was missing. Duh! Restored the file from the WordPress install archive and now everything is working.

Marking solved and perhaps I’ll go back now to something which is more my speed…like trying to keep the crayons between the lines!